I'm looking for something pretty specific in a winter tent. I'd love to hear if anyone has and ideas or can share tents that have worked for them.
I'd like a floorless freestanding single wall tent for one and two night ski trips in Colorado. I have an MSR Twin Sisters, but as it's not freestanding I'm looking for something else. I like its weight, the snow skirt surrounding it, and its two doors though I don't really use both of them. Aside from not being freestanding, I'm also not a fan of the two center poles because it doesn't allow me to use a double bag when I go with my wife and it limits my ability to use all the space when I'm alone.
I've been looking for a freestanding tent for quite a while because there's nothing better than digging down into the snow to make more space, but so far the best option I've come across is the now unavailable GoLite Utopia. It looks like the Hilleberg Jannu might be an option using just the fly, but I can't tell if there's a strap across the middle like there are with some floorless freestanding tents. Obviously a tent like this has to have a strap around the edges including the door opening to retain its shape, and I'm fine with that, but it can't be anywhere else in the tent. I've also toyed with the idea of of buying a single wall tent and cutting the floor out while keeping enough of it to push outside to create a powder skirt, but the only good options for that approach seem to be the Direkt 2 and Firstlight, and those are just a little too small for me.
Has anyone else run into this problem and figured out a solution?